If, as he suggests, the “gig economy” is “evil”, then what words of moral condemnation does he have left in his righteous armoury for stuff like rape gangs, acid attacks, terror bombings and so on?

I can see that working freelance might be precarious. But “evil”? Really??

Now exhibit b)

The Dalai Lama

Here he is speaking in Sweden’s grenade-and-rape-attack capital Malmö.

Noting that a large number of immigrants have settled in Europe from the Middle East and elsewhere, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning spiritual leader said it was good for nations to help “a refugee really facing danger against their life”.

“Receive them, help them, educate them… but ultimately they should develop their own country,” said the 83-year-old Tibetan.

“I think Europe belongs to the Europeans,” he added, stressing that countries like Germany and Sweden should make clear that refugees must “return to their homelands and rebuild them”.

Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes, your holiness!

I can’t be sure — perhaps the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church has said something similarly sound, or maybe the head of the Zoroastrians; I know the current Pope most definitely hasn’t – but I think this must be just about the greatest pearl of wisdom to have dropped forth from any spiritual leader currently in office anywhere in the world today.

The Dalai Lama will get a lot of stick for it, I’m sure. But apart from frothing the usual brainwashed “diversity is good” mantra, is there anyone out there who can give me a single good reason why it is necessary for uneducated, unwilling-to-integrate, and often antisocial emigres (most of them young men in the prime of their working life) to be accumulating in ghettos in Europe and America when their energies could be used so much more fruitfully to rebuilding their own homelands?

I think I speak for a lot of Christians when I say: crikey, how I wish this Dalai Lama was currently head of my church, and not wretched Justin Welby or the equally ghastly Pope.